Empty - For Your Choice 39 Contest

A rummage, a good look around
I looked but all that I found
Was empty

A darkened void, no hint enjoyed
All inspiration, unemployed
And empty

No notion, no emotion
No inner commotion
No spark that enlightens
No flash of what frightens
Just empty

No Halloween whispers
No birthday nor Christmas
No first date, no worst date
No indiscreet sisters
Just empty

This my domain, my nowhere bound train
Where darkness and haze uncouple my wain
My keyboard untapped, my paper still plain
As I find my brain is empty again.


8 November 2020
For: Your Choice (39)
Sponsor: Brian Strand

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020



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Date: 11/8/2020 6:22:00 PM
This is a hilarious way to show that your brain was anything but empty Terry.
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Terry Flood
Date: 11/9/2020 1:01:00 AM
Sometimes when you’ve been in and out of writer’s block, the best way out is to write about... writer’s block. Thanks for your comment, Caren.
Date: 11/8/2020 12:55:00 PM
this screams emptiness!! I like it very much. Gotta go see if it made the winners' list. It ought to have, but one never knows with Brian. I'll be back with congrats if I see your name there!
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Date: 11/8/2020 2:31:00 PM
Thanks ever so much, Andrea. Glad you liked it.
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